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| Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling | | | By David Lewis and Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, a law enforcement official and an investigator told Reuters on Tuesday, in what officials say is a major blow to East Africa's cartels. Baktash Akasha and his brother Ibrahim were arrested two years ago in Kenya along with two other men, Gulam Hussein and Vijaygiri Goswami, in a U.S.-led sting operation. |
| Philippines narcotics agency takes over drugs war amid police shakeup | |  By Manuel Mogato and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines handed its anti-narcotics agency the lead role in running a controversial war on drugs on Tuesday after President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted the national police for rampant corruption and took them off the job. More than 7,600 people, mostly users and small-time dealers, have been killed since Duterte took office at the end of June, vowing to crack down on drugs. Official data on Tuesday showed four additional deaths in police operations, although it was not immediately clear when the operations took place.
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| South African 'Bull Dog' prosecutor made famous by Pistorius trial resigns | |  South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who oversaw the conviction of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), its spokesman said on Tuesday. During the Pistorius trial, Nel painstakingly crafted a picture of Pistorius as a cold-blooded killer who fired through a door at his cowering girlfriend. For his no-nonsense attitude, Nel earned the nickname 'The Bull Dog' as a prosecutor.
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| Cocaine found in nose cone of American Airlines jet - police | | | (Reuters) - An airline maintenance worker in Oklahoma found 31 pounds (14 kg) of cocaine in the nose cone of an American Airlines jet after it arrived from Colombia, police said on Monday. Seven bricks of the drug, with a street value of at least $200,000, were discovered on Sunday night at the carrier's maintenance base in Tulsa, the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. It was sent on to Tulsa for maintenance checks because the base in Miami was too busy, the sheriff said. |
| Indonesia police vow to block "political" rally led by Islamists | | | By Tom Allard and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police will block a rally in Jakarta next month led by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) if the group intends to make it political just days before an election for city governor that has raised religious tension. The FPI has led two rallies over the past year targeting the ethnic Chinese, Christian Jakarta governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, which drew hundreds of thousands of Muslims calling for his jailing over allegations he insulted the Koran. The FPI leader, Habib Rizieq, was on Monday declared a suspect over allegations he insulted Indonesia's state ideology, Pancasila, which enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system. |
| FCA hands Deutsche Bank record $203.77 million fine for Russia trades | |  Britain's financial regulator fined Deutsche Bank 163 million pounds ($203.77 million) for serious failings in relation to anti-money laundering controls, it said on Tuesday. The fine was the biggest ever imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority or its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority. The regulator said that inadequate controls by Deutsche Bank meant that its Russian subsidiary was able to execute more than $6 billion of so-called "mirror trades", where stocks were bought in roubles and sold at the same time in U.S. dollars, in a manner "highly suggestive of financial crime".
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| Lawyer's killing meant to 'destabilise' Myanmar, says president's office | |  By Simon Lewis and Shwe Yee Saw Myint YANGON (Reuters) - The office of Myanmar's civilian president said on Tuesday that the assassination of a lawyer advising the ruling party on amending a military-drafted constitution was likely an effort to destabilise the country. A lone gunman shot Ko Ni, 63, an adviser to the ruling National League for Democracy, in the head in front of onlookers as the widely respected Muslim advocate held his young grandson at Yangon's international airport on Sunday. "The initial interrogation indicates the intention to destabilise the state," the office of President Htin Kyaw said in a statement carried in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
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| Protests expected after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attack | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police confined the accused architect of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to house arrest on Tuesday, manning barricades outside his home in the city of Lahore as supporters vowed protests. The detention of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed follows action by the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump aimed at countries deemed linked to terrorism, and one Pakistani official said the fear of U.S. action against Pakistan had been a factor in the decision to hold Saeed. India has been demanding action against him since the attack on Mumbai by 10 gunmen from Pakistan, who infiltrated the city by boat and killed 166 people in a rampage that included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station.
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| May's Brexit plan likely to survive parliamentary assault | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union is expected to survive weeks of intense parliamentary scrutiny starting on Tuesday, despite pro-EU lawmakers' attempts to force the government to rethink its strategy. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally. Some lawmakers will try to use the legislative process to press her to reveal closely-guarded details of her negotiating strategy, give parliament and devolved governments more say over the exit talks, or even block Brexit entirely.
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| Cambodia's opposition leader loses key role ahead of elections | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's parliament stripped the main opposition leader of a key role on Tuesday, further weakening veteran Prime Minister Hun Sen's opponents ahead of elections. Kem Sokha, deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), had held the minority leader status under a 2014 agreement to end political deadlock and promote dialogue between Hun Sen and the Southeast Asian country's opposition. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has a slim majority in parliament and voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove Kem Sokha's minority leader status.
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| Tech companies to meet on legal challenge to Trump immigration order | |  By Dan Levine and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of technology companies plans to meet on Tuesday to discuss filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, said a spokesperson for a company organizing the gathering. Amicus, or friend of the court, briefs are filed by parties who are not litigants in a case but want to offer arguments or information to the judge. Alphabet Inc's Google, Airbnb Inc and Netflix Inc are among the companies invited, a separate person familiar with the situation said.
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